You are not arguing with my opinion, you are arguing with facts
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Well we let you walk free, even though you might be a serial killer.
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You mean like they are breaking the law by not being forthcoming? You do know what "government" and "state-owned" means right? They cannot deny such requests because it's the law.
All right, gentleperchildren, let's review. The year is 2024 - that's two-zero-two-four, as in the 21st Century's perfect vision - and I am sorry to say the world has become a pussy-whipped, Brady Bunch version of itself, run by a bunch of still-masked clots ridden infertile senile sissies who want the Last Ukrainian to die so they can get on with the War on China, with some middle-eastern genocide on the side
That's because there's no need for that. They are part of the government, so when government requests - they cannot deny. Otherwise it's corruption and a completely different can of worms with different tools to open it.
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It's a fact that possession of child porn doesn't make one a child molester. Whether that should be legal or not - is a matter of opinion, but logic dictates that no harm is done. So a rational person would be against it being illegal.
All right, gentleperchildren, let's review. The year is 2024 - that's two-zero-two-four, as in the 21st Century's perfect vision - and I am sorry to say the world has become a pussy-whipped, Brady Bunch version of itself, run by a bunch of still-masked clots ridden infertile senile sissies who want the Last Ukrainian to die so they can get on with the War on China, with some middle-eastern genocide on the side
You misunderstand. Citizens are requesting information from the government to make the latter accountable. The courts back the citizens, the government ignores them.
And in the meantime, the Prime Minister's childhood pal is scooping up just about any procurement you can think of.
All right, gentleperchildren, let's review. The year is 2024 - that's two-zero-two-four, as in the 21st Century's perfect vision - and I am sorry to say the world has become a pussy-whipped, Brady Bunch version of itself, run by a bunch of still-masked clots ridden infertile senile sissies who want the Last Ukrainian to die so they can get on with the War on China, with some middle-eastern genocide on the side
So the fact that the people that do this to children are getting paid to keep doing it by the guy thats stitting in jail is ok? You are so fucking clearly out of touch with reality that you claim collecting child porn is a victim-less crime. People like you are whats wrong with society.
For a minute, please consider the possibility that he doesn't have child porn. I'm not saying he doesn't, he probably does. But if he doesn't, and he really doesn't remember the password, is it okay that an innocent man will be in jail for the rest of his life for "refusing to comply?"
Maybe your opinion is different, but what's worse in these opposing scenarios: (1) A guilty man gets away with having dirty pictures on his hard drive, or (2) an innocent man's life is completely ruined ??
To me (2) is much worse.
As other people have said, this sets a dangerous precedent. People should be imprisoned based on the evidence that exists, not the evidence that doesn't exist. There are plenty of situations where the variables in this case could be tweaked to apply to others.
One other thing, the max sentence for possession of child pornography is 10 years. If you were truly guilty of something, would you prefer to not admit it at the cost of being in jail for the rest of your life, or fess up and get 0-10 years?
It depends if they aren't buying then the victim has already been victimized.
let's replace this with murder.
Say there are people who are paid to go and murder people on film. Someone pays to have someone murdered so they can watch a film.
800 people then watch the murder film.
2 person actually contributed to victimizing a person while the other 800 passively watched a murder and had nothing to do with the case as they provided no monetary support but instead found and downloaded the video.
Nice theoretical, but the practical case even has file hashes that match other documented cases of child pornography. This guy is guilty as hell and if they can't convict him for that just let him rot in prison for whatever other reason they can think off. That seems like justice to me.
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If there was a market large enough to make snuff films profitable, you can bet your ass that rules would be made to make possession illegal.